Prisoners of Conscience: Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency

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Abu Ghraib, 186–89, 193–95, 210–16, 220–22, 224–25, 227–30, 232, 241–42 accountability rhetoric, 34–36, 185–230 African National Congress, 77; Robben Island structure, 88–90 Agamben, Giorgio, 9–11, 100, 120, 124, 206 agency, 14–16, 22, 50–53, 55, 58–59, 68–69, 87, 95, 104, 121, 124, 236, 237–38, 242; and conscience, 53; and cultural discourse, 35; discursive constitution of, 31; and identity, xiv–xv, 8, 86, 101, 163, 181, 236; and ordinary virtues, 45; and passive aggression, 158; and political arguments, 35; and racism, 73; and struggles for, 108–21; and rhetorical manifestations, 59; within prison, 75, 78, 93, 95, 108, 117, 125, 141–42, 157 Al-Jamadi, Manadel, 222–25 Amnesty International, 7 Anthony, Susan, 7 apartheid, 63, 82, 84, 88, 92–95; administration of, 82; and bantustans, 70; history of, 69–71; and legal code, 70–71, 78, 85, 96–97; and racism, 70–73 Arendt, Hannah, 11, 12, 15, 23, 37, 45, 46, 104, 122, 191–92, 243, 246, 252 Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, 72 Armaugh prison, 142, 151 Barashevo prison: abuses by, 109; dignity, vernacular of, 110, 118; moral dimensions of, 108–09; rhetorical gamesmanship of, 113; solidarity within, 108, 110, 114, 117 bare life, 11–12, 14–15, 56, 58, 73, 86, 102, 104, 108, 110, 113–14, 117, 120, 124 150, 156, 167, 174, 206, 225, 235 Biko, Steve, 78 biopolitics, 10, 12–14, 64, 119, 237, and apartheid, 72–73, 95, 178; and bare life, 56, 124; contesting, 175; state of exception , 14; within Barashevo prison108, 113; within prison, 12, 108–10, 113–14, 181; within Robben Island, 184 biopower, 9–10, 119–20, of penal system, 64, 170; and political prisoners, 74–75 Black Consciousness Movement, 88 blanketmen, 129–30, 140, 142–45, 238, 241 bodily display, 125, 127, 140, as a locus, 168; nakedness, 78, 86, 97, 118, 124, 129, 140–41, 157, 173, 177, 188, 204, 212–14, 218–21, 225–27, 230 bodily sufficiency/insufficiency, 73, 123–27, dehumanization, 86–87; discipline, 125, 182; moral vernacular of, 123; passivity, 158; political insufficiency, 127; rebuke, 124–25; rhetorical sufficiency, 145–53, 158, 181; visibility/invisibility of, 136–37; violence, 156 body politic, 7, 40, 46, 94, 103–05, 120, 126, 129, 131, 135–36, 140, 143, 144– 55, 159, 170, 184. See also body rhetoric body rhetoric, 121, 123; materiality of, 40, 120, 125–27, 157; as metonym, 7, 103, 105–06, 120, 131–32, 140, 159, 178, 184; moral vernacular of, 123, 141, 161, 178; and power, 126; and resistance, 121, 125; as topos, 143 Index 278 Index Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 49, 50, 51, 52–54, 55, 60 Bush, George W., 3–4, 21, 185–88, 190, 195–98, 200–02, 207–09, 213–14, 219, 225, 228 Butler, Judith, 94–95, 170, 195, 229, 238, 239 chronotope, 73, 175–76, 179 civil society, xvii, 15, 19, 85, 88–90. 93, 95–96, 123, 140, 143, 178–79, 242; and vernacular rhetoric, 180–84 Cixous, Hélène, 124 conscience: act of, 187; national conscience, 186; political conscience, 172–81, 183– 84; prisoner conscience, 184; question of, 186 contextual displays of opposition, 47–48 counterpublic sphere. See public sphere criminalization, 9, 139–40, 142, 146 demonstrative rhetoric. See display denaturalizing rhetoric, 128 dignity, 17–19, 26, 28, 35, 45–46, 53, 64, 77, 79–80, 82, 86–87, 93–94, 99, 104, 107, 109–10, 111, 113, 118, 119, 121, 128, 144, 168, 174–76, 178–79, 181–82, 200, 241, 242; bodily display and, 110, 168, 174–75, 179, 181, 241–42; and conscience, 80–81, 113, 119; human right to, xv, 16, 19, 26, 28, 35, 178–79, 200; ordinary virtue, 45–46, 144; primacy of, 64, 86–87, 93–94, 118; violation of, 79, 99, 104, 110–11, 182 discourse of conscience, 48 discourse of power: and alternative rhetorical possibilities, 32; and deliberation, 31–32; in patriarchal, theocratic, and democratic societies, 31 dishonor, 32, 187, 245n7 display, 161–67; bodily, 172; of conscience, 174–76; and demonstrative rhetoric, 125; of opposition, 167; moral vernacular of, 161, 178, 180–82; rhetorical power of, 161–67. See also fantasia Dlamini, Moses, 77, 79 enargeia, 163, 174, 178, 180–81 energeia, 75, 163, 170, 174, 178 England, Lynndie, 218, 219, 220–221, 228 enhanced interrogation: See torture epideictic rhetoric, 164–65 ethnic cleansing, 126 ethos, xiv, 3, 5, 45, 53, 65, 72, 89–90, 93–94...